Writing

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival begins today with various conversations with local and visiting authors from across the country. KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios spoke with Laura Paskus, an environmental writer and former “Our Land” host for New Mexico PBS. Paskus told KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios that people’s perspectives on environmentalism has changed since she first started reporting in 2002.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo recently published her latest children’s book titled “For A Girl Becoming.” KUNM spoke with Harjo, who said she wrote the book as an advice poem for her first grandchild.

The coronavirus pandemic has slammed the arts and creative industries. One study by Americans for the Arts found over 90 percent of respondents lost…